Toombs-Emanuel County GaArchives Biographies.....Parrish, Thomas J. unknown - living in 1913
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COL. THOMAS J. PARRISH. An able and influential member of the bar, Col.
Thomas J. Parrish has won prestige as a lawyer, his broad and comprehensive
knowledge of law and of precedents bringing him well merited success. A native
son of Georgia, he was born on a farm in Emanuel county, near Summit, and was
there a resident until twenty-two years old.
Receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Emanuel county,
Thomas J. Parrish continued his studies at the Agricultural College of the
University of Georgia, in Dahlonega. He afterwards taught school two years,
during which time he read law. Going then to Swainsboro, Emanuel county, he
entered the office of F. H. Saffold, with whom he studied law until admitted to
the bar, under state examination, in March, 1899. Mr. Parrish at once began the
practice of his profession in Swainsboro, remaining there until 1905. In that
year, at the organization of Toombs county, Mr. Parrish located at Lyons, the
county seat, and has here built up an extensive and highly remunerative
practice, being one of the leading lawyers of the city, and attorney for the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company. He is active and prominent in public
matters, and for two years served as mayor of Lyons, giving to the city a clean
administration. Fraternally he is a member of Toombs Lodge, No. 195, Knights of
Pythias, and a past councillor. He is an official member of the Methodist
church, which he is serving as steward.
Mr. Parrish married Miss Berta Barnes, of Dawson, Georgia, She passed to the
higher life, in December, 1907, leaving one child, Thomas J. Parrish, Jr.
Mr. Parrish's father, James M. Parrish, was born in Bulloch county, Georgia,
while his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Dixon, was "born in "Warren county,
Georgia, where during the Civil war her father enlisted for service in the
Confederate army.
Additional Comments:
From:
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
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